24 now, been on ilx since age 20 or so
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 February 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
def remember my first encounter: just did a search for loveless vinyl to cd comparisons and came up with this, which i thought was just a database page of a bygone forum (the minimalism confused me)
i joined after bawling at the part of the convo where an ilxor burns a vinyl to mp3's, and when told that it doesn't work, posts .wav versions
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 February 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I found this site in early 2003 - was googling for the Majesticons album and found a thread about, so I registered right away and posted to thread. I guess I wasn't made for lurking.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I am 30. I started posting when I was 21, in September 2001. So in September I'll have posted on ILX for ten years. My early posts really gross me out.
― homosexual II, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
In 2002, there was a thread called "What will you be doing in ten years?"
My response was: I will be nearly 32, teaching community college hotties.
Oh, how very wrong I was. LIFE. SO HILARIOUS, RIGHT?
― homosexual II, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of people here are both older and younger than i thought they were!
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
50 now, started posting at 43― Jaq, Monday, February 21, 2011 11:44 AM
Same for me.― Brad C
yay!! & yay!! my kinda guys. tho i started postin' already at falty-two, i think:)
― t**t, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i was 31, but i turned 32 a few days later.― tylerw
dontcha worry, tylerw, that's quite normal. has happened to lots & lots of folks.
― t**t, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
19
― gospodin simmel, Monday, 21 February 2011 09:58 (5 hours ago) Bookmark
:)
― flopson, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
24. not anymore though thank god.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 21 February 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
25 is a vast improvement?
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 February 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
46.
I think i lurked here during 2002, and finally got round to posting in 2003. I can't remember how I found ilx, but I kept coming across it without having it bookmarked. I was already acquainted online with Kate the Saint/Masonic Boom going back to at least 2000 from her portraits of rockstars and slash fiction - so maybe it was through her.
― Bob Six, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I was 41 on that date and will be until November. Started lurking here in 2003 after an ILXor recommended the place to me irl. I mostly lurk now, but occasionally post from time to time...
― Stone Monkey, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
so let's assume ilx is getting older even though there's not solid evidence for that yet:
reasons?a. average daily internet user in 2000 was younger than average daily internet user in 2010? I don't have any data to go off but that seems like it'd be true. b. as long as you have a core group of posters, unless there's a very steady influx of younger posters the site average will inevitably rise c. ILM is a smaller part of the site now and music obsessives skew young? (is that even true? is that something that was more true 20 years ago?) is there a reason why someone who joins this site would be likely to be young?
― iatee, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
turned 35 the day before
― the most cuddlesome bug that ever was borned (James Morrison), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow I would have estimated so many of these incorrectly.
― ENBB, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I've posted since Nov 2003, which was right around my 21st birthday. I am 28 now.
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
29, started posting when i was...20.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i started posting in 1977.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
as a fetus.
39 on this date btw (I turn 40 in 2 weeks argh!)
― Trayce, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I knew how old you are, but it's still surprising to me. You look so youthful in your pics!
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Posting 38 while I still can, in a couple of days it'll be different. A little disappointed that I can feel myself getting a bit itchy & scratchy about this birthday already, but no real idea why.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Monday, 21 February 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm 26. Been lurking and occasionally posting here for going on 3 years iirc
― I just threw some kazoo on this bitch (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, 21 February 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Tuomas its the blood of all those young virgins I've been.... I've said too much.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
turned 25 this month
― fuck wit my dinner with andre day (m bison), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
25 is a very good year...
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
January 09 was my last week of being 25.
― Is Aware That She Hasn't Replied Much Lately (MintIce), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
January 09 2011, not 2009.
Currently 38. I lurked for a while (a year or so) and then first post was September 2004, so I would have been 32 at the time. A relatively late starter it seems.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
32. Think I was 25 when I first posted, under a different name. ILX recommendations have enriched my cultural life considerably in that time.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
so I did the math w/ the 2009 numbers and (sans jokes) the old average was 30.599
― iatee, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
er 2008 numbers
― iatee, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
26 (been lurking since 17 or so?)
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
am 29, was 19 the first time i posted here
― some dude, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
33, posting since 25? i might have lurked in 02. steady noobin'
― tremendoid, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I was always sad I missed my 33 and a 1/3 for to party. I could've had an all-vinyl weekend or something. Missed opportunity!
My oldest was born on the day I turned 33 1/3.
― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 28 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
35 is okay.
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
10 46 24
― corey, Monday, 28 February 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
27. Damn I will have to now calculate when I turn 33 and a 1/3rd.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Monday, 28 February 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
49
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 February 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually had a 33 1/3 party last month! most people thought it was a dumb idea.xpost
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 28 February 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Well they're dumb!
― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Monday, 28 February 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Went with "37"
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O
To see age 31 over all the others is quite staggering.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wau for my age being in second
― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
To see it take it by such a margin I mean
xp
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
33. First posted on ILX in 2002. First posted on a message board in 1992!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link